1st Edition
The Pragmatics of Governmental Discourse Resilience, Sustainability and Wellbeing
Introduction: Sociological Discourse Analysis, Natural Language Processing and Early 21st-Century Digitalisation
Part 1
1. Two Approaches to the Question of Necessity
2. Semiosis, Scorekeeping and Text Systems
3. Discursive Scorekeeping and Foucault
Part 2
4. Understanding Text Systems via Linguistic Variation
5. Diffusion of the Vocabulary of Crisis Neoliberalism and the Division of Labour of the British State
6. The Sociolinguistic Structure of Governmentality – Division of Labour, Division of Vocabulary, and Division of Linguistic Labour
Conclusion: Comments on Piggyback Work and Future Directions
Biography
Ayan-Yue Gupta has focused on research on the analysis of language and politics using computational methods, in particular natural language processing. In 2023, he completed his PhD at the University of Bristol, upon which this book is based. His current interests include computational social science, natural language processing, government discourse, polarisation and climate communications.
